Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

When the River Gets Too Hot to Fish: The West's New Normal The drift boats are still on the water. The fly rods still arc through the morning air above the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Montana. But something has fundamentally changed about the summer fishing experience in the American West,

12 Preseason Secrets for Patterning Big Bucks Image credit: Flux.1 Patterning a mature buck before the season opens is one of the most rewarding — a

The Public Lands Reckoning: How Trump's Federal Policies Are Upending Hunting, Habitat, and the Western Outdoors For generations, the American hunter has occupied a peculiar political position — culturally conservative, yet dependent on the kind of robust federal land stewardship that runs counter

The Senate Farm Bill Is Now Ground Zero for the Anti-Hunting Movement The Farm Bill has always been a sprawling piece of legislation — one that touches everything from crop insurance and rural broadband to food stamps and conservation easements. For most Americans, it moves through Congress as a l

The Overlooked Honey Holes Right in Your Backyard Every weekend, thousands of anglers load their bass boats, strap on their depth finders, and make the long haul to the nearest high-profile reservoir — the kind of water that shows up on tournament circuits and gets talked about at every bait shop

The Blue Mountains Are at a Crossroads: What the New Forest Plan Means for Elk Hunters There are moments in conservation history when a government document — dense, bureaucratic, buried in federal registers — carries the weight of decades of hunting tradition on its pages. The Blue Mountains Draft

The Bass Lake Every Serious Angler Is Sleeping On There's a particular kind of place in this country that feels like it was kept a secret on purpose. Not because there's anything wrong with it — quite the opposite. It's been flying under the radar because the people who know about it would rather

A Fight Over Fairness: New Bill Targets Commercial Red Snapper Fishing During Recreational Closures in the Southeast Atlantic For anyone who has ever rigged up a rod along the Carolina coast or run offshore out of Jacksonville chasing one of the most prized reef fish in American waters, the frustr

Oregon Republicans Draw a Constitutional Line Around Hunting and Fishing The debate over hunting and fishing rights in Oregon has been simmering for years, but after a sweeping animal rights measure came closer than ever to reaching the ballot this summer, Republican leaders in Salem decided that

North Carolina's Elk Are Back — And Now the Hunt Begins For more than two centuries, the mountains of western North Carolina stood silent of one of the most commanding animals that ever walked the Appalachians. Elk, native to Southern Appalachia, had disappeared from Western North Carolina due to